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The forum has a new look and the Fairfax Team is so excited to create the best experience for our users.
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welcome back
hopefulchar
Senior Member Senior Member
Why wouldn't I be suprised to see what looks like aunt flo knocking at my door two days early.
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How can this not be working..i just dont get it?!?
-J
Remember what you told me...... as long as we keep trying we are one step closer to it happening! I know that doesn't help today but it will in a few days. Could it just be spotting? Although I know if it feels like af it probably is.
I am here if you need to talk! I truly mean that! Your posts have helped me through this difficult journey! You are a wonderful and caring person and you WILL have a baby of your own to love and care for.
Take some time for yourself this weekend. Go enjoy your birthday with your husband. It is your birthday right?
Lots of hugs to you and sending LOTS of babydust your way!
Robin
I still don't have internet at home!! It's been a rough transition back home with the new job and my house issues. Lost power for several days during the hurricane, basement flooded, new job is hectic as ever. And I'm working 50 hours a week to try to save money for the next cycle. I'm at work (on lunch) using the internet which I'm sure is "monitored". Oh so as you know Thursday was "internet day" so I take off early from work to wait 2+hours for Comcast. When they finally showed up the j-hole didn't have any cable boxes and couldn't do anything!! I was so angry and sent him away. I will have to try another company for tv and internet. Anyway that's my rant for now :roll:
I hope that you are keeping your spirits up and doing something special for your birthday weekend. I know how hard it is to see BFN's cycle after cycle. It sucks...BUT you know deep down that it will work and you and hubby will have a beautiful baby in your arms next summer. We have to name and claim our blessings. I don't want you to be discouraged because you always encourage all of us on this forum and want you to know that if you need to chat/vent, I'm here for you! Even without home internet :oops:
Have you considered taking a cycle off? After my third IUI I took two months off and when I started up again I felt renewed and refreshed. Felt less stressed and like I was back on track. That's what I'm doing now and this all this stress I'm happy to not be pumped up on hormones. My body is just starting to feel normal again and it took over a month.
Please try not to focus on the WHY, just give yourself permission to cry, yell, or do whatever helps you through this really sucky process. I'm praying for you! Lets be cycle buddies in the end of October :P
Baby dust to all!!! Be encouraged.
Moe
I agree! Let's all be cycle buddies in october! That would be great I can just see it now one bfp after another! It is in our futures!
So how about it char and latebloomer are you all in for october!
Robin
Moe I definitely agree with you, time off definitely helps. On one hand you feel like you should be trying but on the other letting all those crazy hormones out of your system and feeling like you are somewhat normal again is definitely a great feeling so I'll go with the latter!
We'll get there ladies!
Charlotte I hope you are having a nice drink for your birthday and enjoying it! Sorry about the bad news but like Robin said, it WILL happen for all of us!
Sorry for my depressing post..here's to hoping tomorrow is better
Char
give yourself a break..... it's your birthday and you CAN cry if you want too!!! Sorry couldn't help the little joke! I am sure that your mother understood. If you were her dream for 6 years, she can understand some of your feelings and next year at this time you will have a little one to help you celebrate. So it wasn't in the stars for this birthday, that does not mean that it is not in the stars for your next!
You are allowed to have depressing posts and it is our job to help pull you out of it! Girl, it will happen
Driving home today, I just thought. "wow I want to be a mom so bad!" Not that I haven't thought that before it was just how and when it happened. After a very stressful day at work where I work with many troubled teens that are going crazy with the full moon. One would think that today of all days I would not be thinking about motherhood but I was. I think it was just to remind me that this will happen. One day I will have a teenager of my own that is making me question my sanity!
So keep your head up. Look at the beautiful full moon in the sky above and remind yourself that you are still in this game!
Robin
Good luck and Big Congrats to everybody who got there BFP this week! I am so glad that your prayers have been awnesered and feel so blessed that I know my day is coming soon too!!
all my best
Charlotte
i knew that you would come back and be positive today. You are always so positive. You are an inspiration to the rest of us. Our emotions can be pretty incredible. I think that you were able to change them so quickly because you did not fight them instead you let them just go through you and at the other end were more positive thoughts and emotions. i think the more we fight emotions the more they stick with us.
So here is to back to back iui's and the end of this month or in october! which ever comes first!
Robin
Regan you are on my mind..how are you feeling..how did the transfer go? if you don't mind me asking what was ivf like?
Robin..AF must be here soon right? I am thinking good thought that this is your time my friend.
Moe..where have you been..you are getting so close to your OCT cycle...what have you been doing? I am very close to calling comcast myself and making them get your internet turned on..lol
Latebloomer..Its almost OCT!!
Well I have to admit for the first time I enjoyed a night or two off from my infertile-self this week and it sure does help! I have honestly spent the last year consumed with my baby making self that I honestly forgot about the fun girl that i use to be. I encourage you all to leave baby world one or two night this month and go have some fun. Its amazing what a break can do!
Well off to work..hope everybody has a good day and a fun weekend!!
I'm still waiting for af but she isn't due quite yet! I think I ovulated a week after I was supposed to so she will probably be a week off as well. So I'm thinking somewhere in the next two weeks! I really don't feel like she will be here sooner but who knows. Just hoping no cysts in october! I haven't had cysts when I have had to take a month off so here's hoping that is still consistent. I am anxiously awaiting october! That is my favorite month, can't wait to take my nieces and nephews to the pumpkin farm it is always so much fun!
Ladies let's all be dressing as pregnant women for halloween!
Robin
So nice to hear some positive posts, and that you bounced back your spirits Charlotte! And the posts of having a fun girls night out, and taking a break from your infertile self - Wow, what good advice!
I haven't caved and taken a hpt yet, have my beta on Monday, and THINK I'll be able to wait until then. Truth is, I sprint so fast to the bathroom when I wake up, I don't know that I could make it! And I'm still so hungry, but can make it about 4 hours without eating these days! I spend 50% of the time thinking all my symptoms are pregnancy, and the other 50% of the time, thinking it's the hormones and PMS. So, we'll see!
I don't mind talking about IVF, it was all pretty simple, actually. The shots were not as bad as I thought, I really didn't feel them, the hardest part was keeping track of what I was taking when, and not "missing" the time. I chose 10pm because that's when I get up for work, and I'm usually home by 10am, but I had some trouble with the DHEA (which is three times a day). I'm so much better with once or twice a day, fitting in that third time was hard! The ultrasounds were difficult to schedule, since I work until 9:30am and had to get there by 11am, so a few days a week I had to leave early. And I couldn't always get my favorite tech, so that was disappointing. It seems my left ovary likes to "hide" and then there was the poor response with so few follicles, and the waiting and hoping.
Egg retrieval was a breeze, because I was out for it! My partner said I squirmed around a lot as if I was in pain, and they gave me more medicine (there was a problem with my IV line, but nothing they didn't handle). I came home and slept off the anesthesia and went back to work, only to drive in for the transfer, after more waiting to hear how the embies developed. Disappointment over only one, but again, it only takes one. There was an awkward time period during transfer (waiting for the embryo to arrive from wherever they are monitored) while my doctor had me set up and was waiting, just hanging out, all exposed with the transvaginal probe and his fingers in the right places. Must have been a 5 minute wait! Not uncomfortable, just awkward! But then they brought in this metal type tube that had my little Englebert in there.
So now I'm home on progesterone and estrogen with Lovenox, and trying not to eat everything in sight (healthy or not) and sleep well, and go for my beta on Monday. Not the end, but the end of the beginning...I'd be happy to answer any specific questions you have, but I'm just here hoping for some bfp's this week!
~Regan